21.06.2008. Yesterday I finally met with Darek, it is a day before a conference so we planned to play a tourists and walk through the Forbidden City. We were walking down from the subway station and I was playing with my Sony DSC-H3 camera trying to figure out why most of the pictures I take look out focus. After hardware reset pictures still OK but it is enough to zoom in to any object to get all the following images crappy out of focus again.
I am in China, with so many pictures to take and
I DON'T HAVE A CAMERA !
Even there is no reason to go to the Forbidden City!
So we actually cancelled the Forbidden City and went to the Darek's place to prepare for ISCA presentation. And did a very right thing, we had fixed a few slides, run other the presentation again and tested a Bochs side-by-side demo video in the battle-field conditions.
The presentation went just excellent, we probably easily could compete for the title of best presenters of the workshop !
After the lunch we skipped the second part of the day and went to the Beijing Hai Dan Market. A huge electronic market, at least four huge 10 floor towers fully packed by every electronic stuff you could just imagine. Everything you ever saw or heard about could be found here. Darek was looking for newest ASUS EEE PC laptop with large screen resolution and we actually found it at end of the day for the initial price of around $450. The prices probably relatively cheap for Israel but still expensive for the US dollar and especially for tax free Oregon.
Hai Dan Market - second tower, third floor
I end up buying 10Mp Sony DSC-W170 camera with complete kit (battery, cables, charger and Chinese manuals) + 2G Sony memory stick for about 1100 NIS. Not that cheap, but also not such expensive. Could not tell anything bad about the camera till now, let's hope it will survive for the next three weeks !
